Tag Archives: black phoebe

This Holiday season, Kathy and I visited our two families that reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kathy’s daughter Laina and family live in Alameda, only a few minutes walk from the bay shore. This provides a shoreline birding walk … Continue reading →

A combination of low water years and no success in the annual lottery kept us away from our second most favorite river in Arizona for 7 years. We had first run the 52 mile Salt River Canyon in 1982, and … Continue reading →

This is a reprise of my post of 6/12/14, which included a poem entitled “Yellow Sally”. This poem makes mentions of a black phoebe, and I went back and photographed that bird the next evening. Here’s the poem, followed by … Continue reading →

This is the fourth in a series of posts on the birds of Alameda, CA. There were plenty of migrating and non-migrating songbirds around, and the ones photographed here were seen in the shrubbery and gardens of the houses that … Continue reading →